The Pool
Are you alive? I touch you. You quiver like a sea-fish. I cover you with my net. What are you--banded one?
H.D.
Are you alive? I touch you. You quiver like a sea-fish. I cover you with my net. What are you--banded one?
In just a few short lines, H.D. turns a small encounter into something quietly mysterious. A speaker reaches into a pool and asks if what they touch is alive. The thing—maybe a fish, maybe a reflection, maybe the water itself—quivers at the touch, and the speaker tries to catch it with a net.
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